# The new ProgrammersManual.texinfo

Don Schwarz (darkowl@darkowl.pr.mcs.net)
Sun, 14 Apr 1996 19:08:00 PDT

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    I just FTPed the new ProgrammersManual.texinfo and started to print it when
    I noticed an extra page near the beginning containing the title and
    copyright in a typewriter-type font so I took a look at the code and I think
    I found the problem.  The file starts:

      \input texinfo   @c -*-texinfo-*-

      @comment %**start of header (This is for running Texinfo on a region.)
      @set INFO
      @setfilename ProgrammersManual.info
      @settitle LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual

    I'm not really sure what that "@set INFO" does, but it sounds like it was
    something used for testing or debugging.  A little later in the file, is
    this section:

      @node Top, Introduction, (dir), (dir)
      @comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
      @ifset INFO
      @format
    		     *************************************
    		     *** LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual ***
    		     *************************************

                             For LambdaMOO Version 1.8.0alpha1
                                        April 1996

    				by Pavel Curtis
    				  aka Haakon
    				  aka Lambda

            Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996 by Pavel Curtis.
      @end format
      @end ifset

    Which is probably there to be displayed as the first node in the info
    version, but since INFO is set at the beginning either way, it's displayed
    after the title page in the TeX version too.  Maybe that @ifset INFO should
    be an @ifinfo ?  or maybe there should be an @ifinfo around the @set INFO ?
    Of course, I don't really know that much about texinfo, so this might just
    be some feature that my texinfo program doesn't support, I don't know.
                                                        --Dark_Owl